{"id":3151,"date":"2014-09-12T12:23:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T16:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geddes\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2014-09-12T12:23:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T16:23:23","slug":"special-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geddes\/2014\/09\/12\/special-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Visit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, August 25<sup>th<\/sup>, two former Directors of the Geddes Language Center, Gail King and Bruce Parkhurst both stopped in for a visit to the GLC.\u00a0\u00a0If that wasn\u2019t special enough neither Bruce or Gail had planned to visit the lab that day.\u00a0\u00a0Did I mention that Gail and Bruce were here at the same time and hadn\u2019t seen each other in 20 years?\u00a0\u00a0Or that it was the new GLC Director, Mark Lewis\u2019 fifth day on the job, and that part of his introduction to the GLC that week were stories of the wonderful community that Geddes had created and maintained over the years, a community that engendered frequent visits from faculty, employees and students of Geddes past and that that very culture was instilled into the very fabric of the GLC by both Gail and Bruce.\u00a0\u00a0It left us wondering if the stars had aligned, and really what better way to introduce our two new staff members, Director, Mark Lewis and Services Coordinator, Julianne McCobin to it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/geddes\/files\/2014\/09\/3Directors-Web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/geddes\/files\/2014\/09\/3Directors-Web.png\" alt=\"3Directors-Web\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, August 25th, two former Directors of the Geddes Language Center, Gail King and Bruce Parkhurst both stopped in for a visit to the GLC.\u00a0\u00a0If that wasn\u2019t special enough neither Bruce or Gail had planned to visit the lab that day.\u00a0\u00a0Did I mention that Gail and Bruce were here at the same time and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geddes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geddes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geddes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geddes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geddes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geddes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3155,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geddes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/3155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geddes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geddes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geddes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}